Kristen A. Fichthorn is an American chemical engineer and condensed matter physicist
Kristen Fichthorn | |
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Alma mater | University of Pennsylvania University of Michigan |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Chemical engineering physics |
Institutions | Penn State College of Engineering |
whose research involves computational simulation, multiscale modeling, and molecular dynamics of interfaces, thin films, colloids, catalysis, nanostructures, and other material processes.[1] She is the Merrell Fenske Professor of Chemical Engineering and Professor of Physics at Pennsylvania State University.[2]
Education and career
editFichthorn has a 1985 bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, and completed her Ph.D. in chemical engineering in 1989 at the University of Michigan.[2]
After a year of postdoctoral research at the University of California, Santa Barbara, supported by IBM, Fichthorn joined the Pennsylvania State University faculty as an assistant professor in 1990.[1]
Since 1986, Fichthorn has authored or co-authored 292 articles and papers on interfaces and surfaces.[3]
Recognition
editFichthorn was named as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2010, after a nomination from the APS Division of Condensed Matter Physics, "for simulations that revealed new phenomena in the kinetics of reaction systems, self-assembly of nanostructures, and diffusion in mesoporous systems".[4] She became a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers in 2017.[5]
She was the recipient of the 2019 Nanoscale Science and Engineering Forum Award of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers,[6] and one of two 2020 Langmuir Lecturers of the American Chemistry Society Colloid & Surface Division.[7]
References
edit- ^ a b Kristen Fichthorn, AIChE, 29 July 2019, retrieved 2023-07-12
- ^ a b "Kristen Fichthorn", Directory, Penn State Chemical Engineering, retrieved 2023-07-12
- ^ "Kristen A Fichthorn". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2024-01-12.
- ^ "Fellows nominated in 2010 by the Division of Condensed Matter Physics", APS Fellows archive, American Physical Society, retrieved 2023-07-12
- ^ "Highlights from Fall 2017 Fellows Breakfast I" (PDF), AIChE Fellows Newsletter, AIChE, p. 3, Winter 2018
- ^ Oberdick, Jamie (11 December 2019), Chemical engineering professor receives nanoscale science and engineering award, Penn State Chemical Engineering, retrieved 2023-07-12
- ^ Oberdick, Jamie (8 September 2020), Chemical engineering professor awarded Langmuir Lectureship, Penn State College of Engineering, retrieved 2023-07-12
External links
edit- Fichthorn group: Multiscale materials simulation
- Kristen Fichthorn publications indexed by Google Scholar